"It's the morning of Europe 1, we are together until 9 am," said Pierre de Vilno, taking the antenna on Monday.
Because the listeners did not have the right to the voice of Matthieu Belliard, the morning man of the station, having declared himself striker.
The same goes for the news flashes, provided exceptionally by Thierry Dagiral and Julien Pearce.
Chronicles side, no Bertrand Chameroy, without explanation on the air.
“Inform you this morning, at all costs.
And above all to highlight the work of our correspondents, of our special envoys who followed this first round of voting in your regions, ”said Thierry Dagiral all the same in the 8 o'clock newspaper.
However, according to an internal count, there are 70% of strikers on Monday at Europe 1. A strike which has just been renewed until Tuesday.
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It was not until the end of the morning, around 8:40 am, for the public to hear about the word “strike”.
Julie Leclerc and the imitator Nicolas Canteloup took the floor.
With the voice of Matthieu Belliard, he spoke of the current situation.
“A radio which has a small breakdown of listeners, it is already not great.
But a radio without too many journalists cannot work.
And a radio without Christine Berrou
(Editor's note: who announced to leave the station after a joke on Eric Zemmour which was censored in his column)
,
excuse me, that would be boring.
The worst would be a radio without humor.
Especially the day after an election, we must agree, ”he said, before parodying the vision of humor by… Éric Zemmour.
No commented Euro matches
In the process, Philippe Vandel has given way to records. "Culture Médias is not in a position to provide a live broadcast as you know it with its usual appointments and all the preparation that this requires," he explained to listeners. If the host has not declared himself on strike, this is not the case for almost all of his team. And according to our information, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, who was to be the guest of the media part, canceled his participation in the show on Friday, in view of the current tension within his old station. While promising to come back once the situation has calmed down.
The rest of the day should also be hectic.
Recorded, the programs of Anne Roumanoff, Christophe Hondelatte and the duo Stéphane Bern-Matthieu Noël should indeed be broadcast.
Élisabeth Assayag at 1 p.m., just like Mélanie Gomez and Jimmy Mohamed at 3 p.m., will also be present at the microphone.
On the other hand, Patrick Cohen will be absent for his part at 12:30 p.m.
And the football night for Euro 2021 should also be disrupted, journalist Julien Froment having announced that he would not comment on the match as planned.
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This weekend, several journalists from Europe 1 saw their chronicles or programs - recorded before the start of the strike, Friday June 18 at 4 p.m. - broadcast when they had meanwhile declared themselves strikers and opposed their diffusion. This is the case of Pascale Clark, whose "ride" with Karin Viard was on the air Sunday morning, while the journalist had requested the opposite. Or the comedian Christine Berrou, who resigned on Friday, whose ticket was broadcast on Saturday. The latter told us to have served Friday evening the 18th to the director of the morning that she did not want these lozenges, boxed on Friday, to be broadcast… On Saturday evening, she wrote to the management to confirm that she no longer wanted to be on the air in Europe 1.
"We sent a message to the management so that the wishes of the striking journalists are respected, assures Olivier Samain, representative of the SNJ union of Europe 1. The management answered us that from the moment the programs or chronicles were recorded. , they were the property of the company. There is a gray area in the law on this subject. "Olivier Samain adds that the SNJ, the majority union in the editorial staff, proposed to the management an" arrangement ":" We asked that, in each newspaper, the presenter specifies that some of the subjects broadcast were fabricated before the outbreak of the strike by journalists who have since declared themselves on strike. "
Sunday evening, management still had not responded to this proposal. A “radio silence”, according to Olivier Samain, symptomatic of a very tense climate between the management and the editorial staff of Europe 1.